Poetry by Lynn Martin and Tim Mayo--Readings in the Gallery--October 15, 2014 @ 7pm

The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum hosts the last of its 21st annual Readings in the Gallery Series with a night with Vermont poets Lynn Martin and Tim Mayo on Wednesday, October 15, at 7:00 p.m., followed by a reception and book signing. Space is limited and doors open at 6:30.

Lynn Martin’s poetry has appeared in such fine publications as Calliope, River City Review, South Florida Review, The Garden State, Green Mountains Review, and The Centennial Review. Her work appears in the anthologies Heartbeat of New England, My Lover Is A Woman, Tail Feathers, and Connections: New York City Bridges in Poetry. Her non-fiction has been published in the Mystery Review, Out in the Mountains, Foster Families, and the Southeastern Audubon Society newsletter. She is the author of Visible Signs of Defiance and Talking to the Day.

Lynn will be reading from a collection of her work. “Lynn’s style compliments that of the state of Vermont: sharp lines, a tough backbone, and an aesthetic the quality of moss,” says Meg Mott, writer and professor at Marlboro College.

Tim Mayo holds an ALB, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars. His poems and reviews have appeared in Crab Creek Review, Narrative Magazine, Poetry International, Poet Lore, River Styx, Tar River Poetry, Verse Wisconsin, Verse Daily, Web Del Sol Review of Books, and The Writer’s Almanac.

His chapbook The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House, 2008) was a finalist in the WCDR 2008 Chapbook "Challenge" in Ajax, Ontario, Canada, and his first full length collection The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press, 2009) was a semifinalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards and a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award. An earlier version of this second manuscript was a semifinalist in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition.

He has been twice nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, four times for a Pushcart Prize, and was chosen as a top finalist for the Paumanok Award. He is a former member of The Brattleboro Literary Festival Author Selection Committee and currently lives in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Tim will be reading a selection of poems from his book The Kingdom of Possibilities and from his new yet to be published manuscript "Trapezing in God’s Country".

Please join them as they celebrate Vermont poets in the last installment of the Readings in the Gallery Series.

This program sponsored by the Fund for Poetry. Free, open to the public, 

and handicap-accessible. Book signing and reception to follow.

171 Main Street ● St. Johnsbury, VT 05819 ● 748-8291 ● www.stjathenaeum.org